Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
AKKINENI NAGARJUNALike the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
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Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
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Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
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That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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